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Showing posts with label English. Show all posts
Showing posts with label English. Show all posts
Monday, September 15, 2025

Stat them up ! — a game & exercise to play everywhere

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Hi all, Just had a fun idea for a small game or exercise you can play everywhere. It goes like this : when you see something interesting in ...
Thursday, September 4, 2025

Reveries #1: Summer French Roads

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In essence, this post is a Slush Pile for the stray thoughts I caught these last few days [mid-August at the time of writing] , while drivin...
Friday, January 10, 2025

What are the guards talking about ?

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 Hello all, A quick random table today as a warm-up. Roll d6 once for each column. Feel free to tweak, develop, adapt to your ga...
Thursday, January 2, 2025

Current projects

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Several convergent signs tell me to publish something this year. 1. My spouse and I crafted handmade notebooks as Christmas gifts for the fa...

Bluesky presence

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Hey, it seems I'm present on Bluesky now. I never used Twitter at all : it always looked intimidating and exhausting and, frankly, kinda...
Sunday, December 22, 2024

GUYS I DID SOME STUFF

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  I actually finished something for once ! Grant Howitt’s November 2024 one-page game is RP6 , a game centered on the quintessential RPG a...
Tuesday, July 23, 2024

Dungeons all the way down – preview

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I have a big post brewing about dungeons . It will probably be in two or more parts, and needs illustrations. Here is a TL;DR preview so I c...
Sunday, July 21, 2024

Reading Holmes right now

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... and it's interesting. I lean even more rules-light ordinarily, and the book is still somewhat chaotic. But it's a good read, a g...
Sunday, July 7, 2024

Death at 0 HP – a simple adjustment

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On matters of survival, older rules are harsh : out of HP, you're dead. It's quick and makes sense : the character can't take hi...
Monday, May 6, 2024

Dream journals

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If you don't do it, I incite you to keep a dream journal, in whatever form you desire. It's both a useful tool to get to know your p...
Sunday, May 5, 2024

Actually acceptable adversaries

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A random table for villains that are acceptable to destroy and crush, either allowing for kid-friendly violence (eugh, what an awful associa...
Saturday, May 4, 2024

Random table : which OSR are you ?

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Just for fun : a quick random table to know which part of the wide OSR movement one may belong to. Heh, that might even be applicable to ran...
Monday, January 22, 2024

Don't xander your dungeons, jaquays them !

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 Just relaying this article from Anne , over at DIY & dragons. You know how the OSR sphere talks about "jaquaying dungeons" si...
Tuesday, November 7, 2023

Where I stand as a creator

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 This is a "this is my stance on things" article. And my stand as a creator (or would-be creator) is the same as my stance as a, y...
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Belle-Île-en-Mer : awesome inspiration

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When I was a kid, I often went on holidays on the island of Belle-Île-en-Mer (Brittany, France), situated 15 kilometers (about 9 miles) off ...

Genre distinctions in speculative fiction

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This article was originally a response in comment of this post over at Grognardia , where James Maliszewski discusses Lovecraft and "th...
Tuesday, January 10, 2023

OSR origin story : my turn !

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 So back in november, Jenx over at Gorgon Bones  posted about his coming into the OSR and invited others to do the same. Since I was plannin...
Monday, January 9, 2023

Quickly tailoring NPCs : 1d20 distinctive features

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It's a relatively common tip for game masters : if you want to make an NPC memorable,  give them one distinctive feature. Your players ...

#dungeon23 ideas

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 I appreciate the #dungeon23 project a lot. It sounds just like the "great days" of the OSR, albeit in a less collaborative fashi...
Thursday, December 1, 2022

A simple solo RPG system

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I play solo quite a lot these days. To be fair, that's even the majority of my roleplaying career, as sad as it may sound to some. Blame...